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MirrorsWithinMirrors
Are you offering me a choice, Mr Yarbrough, when I can find my ownway to square things than by your video arcade game called physics? Iam again responding to your notions of theoretical physics, repeatedlyafter your disavowals about theoretical physicists as if apart from whatyou seem instead
not to be
: which is a physicist than some theoreticianof some science unbeknownst to Science.How do you achieve a hundred times over what I have seemed unableto by a fraction of a forty-third? Here am I doing what I can only hopefor my followers to achieve by their working towards comprehendinga buzzing of wasps to get more annoying as they’re annoyed the moreand more by their repeatedly being swatted away; they’re a pain in theass, those wasps to make such a nest out of paper!
 
Are you a scientist? Like a teacher who gives you anywhere near lessthan half of what you need to understand what is being taught, there’smore than that other half to find, to have minds meet minds. So, let metry to fill in what you’ve all too neglected to but by a late ‘70s form of Youtube’d video arcade game to simulate old-fashioned table tennis.Two, flat mirror surfaces are in parallel with each other as to face eachother, where both are moving through space at the same speed in their direction perpendicular to their planar orientation together. There thenlies between them a fixed gap across which one of several photons arefound to ping-pong their way by being hit in reflection off the faces of either of the two table tennis bats to act as mirrors in play. This wholegaming table is itself moving through space at the speed of light.You are a writer. Why didn’t you tell us what I’ve had to go and writeinstead? Are you trying to have something understood by everyone, or to rather have nothing understood by anyone? How can you copyrightthe latter of these two approaches? That’s like putting a reservation ona blank piece of paper, by calling no-idea your idea.You instruct us on how the photon’s ping-pong action is really only anoptical illusion.
The photon always moves at the speed of light relativeto the mirrors
; really? We are then asked to compare this motion witha simulated game observed by the relatively stationary observer to laga little behind the BBC’s live, sporting, outside broadcast unit.You’re half right, though not about some medium of ether in space, toexist anywhere near enough to as affect the notions of motions you’vearticulated about how possible it is for light to exceed light speed.Let us take one mirror only, to be moving in a direction perpendicular to its planar orientation; the unbending magnitude of the translation of the mirror through space is at the speed of light in a vacuum. A sourceof light in the experiment is unimportant, but for the fact that a photonmomentarily emerges out and away from the surface of the mirror. Wecan call this coincident emergence that moment when a photon was tohave been reflected off the mirror from somewhere else. The photon’sassumed now to be free-flying, ahead of the mirror, as travelling awayfrom the mirror at the speed of light; but how can it, than to remain onthe surface of the mirror from which it emerged? To maintain what wecould call the illusion of the speed of light, the photon must now crossthe gap of space at
twice
the speed of light, as by a sum of the mirror’s
 
speed and of the photon’s speed to surf ahead of a mirror’s wave crestof translational movement. Let me illustrate this important point.Here’s a musket shot; and here’s a very fast man running after it, so asto prevent the speeding-away shot from reaching its intended target of assassination. Does it not look in that mirror of a man to have lived onthe moon for the bullet to whizz through space by simply standing stillor by just staying put where it is?With the second mirror to recede away from the point of emergence of any photon from its surface, we have a different problem. To maintainagain an illusion’s measure of a photon’s free-flying translation acrossa gap of space, at the speed of light, the photon needs only to sit whereit is and to hit the oncoming mirror as coincident to its stance. Surely a photon must move through space? Therefore, with the sum of a mirror to recede away at speed from the photon, as a subtraction away from a photon to have collided with the mirror at twice the speed of light, as areflection into it, we conserve the notion of light moving apparently atthe speed expected of photons’ flight through a vacuum. Or do we?On the one hand, we have batted a ping-pong ball away, simultaneousto our opposing player drawing back their bat, at a speed twice what islawful since the table is moving too, but on the other hand for our ballto stay suspended in space as it retraces its route back. Something hereseems more than a little amiss. Is this a dream? Who is the dreamer?
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